AP World History Dates

632

Rise of Islam

732

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

1054

1st Schism in Christian Church

1066

Norman conquest of England

1071

Battle of Manzikert

1095

1st Crusade

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295

Travels of Marco Polo

1324

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage

1325-1349

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1347-1348

Bubonic plague in Europe

1433

End of Zheng He's voyages

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1488

Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain (Columbus sailed the ocean blueee)

1502

1st African Slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther 95 theses

1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1533

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1571

Battle of Lepanto

1588

British defeat Spanish Armada

1600

Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1618-1648

30 years war

1683

Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1756-1763

7 years war

1776

American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution

1804

Haitian independence

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1839

1st Opium War in China

1848

European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification

1863

Emancipation Proclamation in US

1871

German unification

1885

Berlin Conference - division of Africa

1898

Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico

1899-1902

Boer War - British in control of South Africa

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution (end of dynastic China)